[TUHS] Date madness

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Dec 13 04:21:35 AEST 2017


The date on my Venix system doesn't grok 20xx at all. I had to hack date.c
from v7 to make it work. So at some point you had to hack things in to make
20xx work, no?

Warner

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

> Heh, my V6 machine thinks (via 'date') that today is _Monday_, December
> 12th. Oddly enough, 'cal 17 2017' on it produces the right thing. Guess the
> date code is probably missing the '400 year' exception.
>
>         Noel
>
>
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